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Israeli held in Malaysia ‘may be crime hit man’
Published on 02/04/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police are looking into reports that an armed man detained last week had links to an Israeli crime syndicate, amid a widening investigation.
Malaysia holds trio accused of aiding Israeli ‘spy’
Reuters, Published on 30/03/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian authorities have arrested three people suspected of supplying firearms to a 36-year-old man carrying an Israeli passport, who was detained this week at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, police said on Saturday.
20 Myanmar workers caught with fake entry stamps in passports
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 29/10/2023
» SONGKHLA: Twenty Myanmar migrant workers - 16 men and four women - were arrested in Hat Yai district on Saturday for illegal entry after fake entry stamps from the Suvarnabhumi airport immigration office were found in their passports.
Facial recognition leads to fake-passport arrest
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/05/2019
» A foreigner carrying a fake Malaysian passport was arrested with $500,000 at Suvarnabhumi airport on Friday morning in the first passport-fraud arrest based on biometric facial recognition.
Police nab Pakistani passport forger with IS links
AFP, Published on 19/01/2018
» A Pakistani passport forger whose fakes may have been sold to Islamic State operatives has been arrested in Thailand, police said Friday, ending a career that helped people slip into Europe illegally.
Malaysia arrests female suspect in North Korea assassination
Published on 15/02/2017
» Malaysian police arrested a woman carrying Vietnamese travel documents who is suspected of involvement in the murder of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother.
Forgers feel the heat
News, Editorial, Published on 26/07/2016
» Credit is due the Immigration Police Bureau (IPB) and its dynamic chief Nathathorn Prousoontorn for arresting one of the region's top forgery suspects. Abdullah Ghani Bhori, known as "Baboo" in certain quarters, is helping police investigate the dirty and dangerous business of fake travel documents, especially passports. After many years of paying lip service to this crime, it now appears authorities are taking it seriously. It is certainly time to remove the stain from Thailand being known as a "hub of passport forgers".
Iranian extradited for passport forgery arrives in Thailand
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 22/07/2016
» A 45-year-old Iranian man who jumped bail in Pattaya several years ago in a large-scale passport forgery case and fled into hiding in Malaysia has already arrived in Thailand and will be today taken to the Criminal Court for detention.
KL deports Iranian tied to passport scam
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 22/07/2016
» Officials from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) yesterday travelled to Malaysia to pick up an Iranian suspect, a suspected member of a fake passport scam and other transnational crime gangs, to stand trial in Thailand.
Iranian wanted for passport forgery in Pattaya extradited
King-oua Laohong, Published on 21/07/2016
» Officers of the Department of Special Investigation have gone to Malaysia to extradite an Iranian man who jumped bail in Pattaya four years ago in a case involving large-scale passport forgery.